Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 10:02:53 +0200 (WET)
From: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Binutils 2.10 released
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On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Mark E. wrote:
> 
> > The DJGPP port of Binutils 2.10 is now available from SimTel mirrors:
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> > * Weak symbol support. GCC 2.95.2 or later use this feature with the
> >   '-mbnu210' switch.
> > * '.gnu.linkonce' sections support for space efficient use of C++ templates.
> >   GCC 3.0 will be able to use this feature with the '-mbnu210' switch.
> 
> It looks like future releases of GCC should put -mbnu210 into
> lib/specs, no?
> 

We can make it also as the default in gcc. So if one wants to use old
binutils due to some reason, he/she may specify -fno-bnu210.

Anyway I think it wouldn't be nice to do it with gcc-2.95.X

Andris